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Supreme Court Hears Migrant Protection Protocols Case

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What Do You Do When the Statute Is Incomprehensible?

i think i've reverenced this case before, but this is not an unprecedented thing for judges to wrestle with statutes that are either incomprehensible or impossible to comply with. And so what do you do when you literally, when the statute literally is not susceptible to a conventional understanding and reading in accordance with the rules of the english language? So because of that, i'm a little teed up on language right now, and i thought this was an interesting argument, because there is a language divide between the progressive left and the far right about how you talk about these issues. I actually don't like euphemisms, and that counts on all sides of everything. But when you obscure what's actually

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